Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Economic Impact Plastics & Pollution
Economist Impact convened the Global Plastics Summit and provided an opportunity for stakeholders to debate the details of the draft treaty.
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Gabi Thesing, World Economic Forum Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
Amsterdam is the latest tourist destination to consider banning cruise ships in a fight against overtourism and pollution.
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Christine Zhu, Bloomberg Law Plastics & Pollution
More companies and investors need to consider plastics in their climate commitments, according to a report released last week by environmental advocacy group Ocean Conservancy.
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Andre Kuncoroyekti & Anthony Berthold Plastics & Pollution
Plastic waste pollutes our environment at an annual rate of over 8m tonnes. However, amid the global conversations surrounding plastic reduction and reuse, one critical aspect often goes overlooked: the lack of formal waste collection for more than 2bn people in the global south.
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Investable Oceans Plastics & Pollution
Plastic Free July is an annual challenge organized by the Plastic Free Foundation that has been attracting millions of participants worldwide since 2011. Here are 5 tips to help kick-start your journey!
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Plastics & Pollution
A guest blog on creating ethical and socially responsible supply chains by Emy Kane, managing director of Lonely Whale, and Michael Sadowski, executive director of The Circulate Initiative.
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Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review Plastics & Pollution
Why people want to use seaweed in the oceans to clean up the atmosphere, and what it would take to make it work.
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Emma Cummings-Krueger, Conservation International Plastics & Pollution
Plastic is choking the world’s oceans — threatening vital ecosystems, coastal economies and the health of billions of people who eat contaminated seafood.
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Oliver Balch, Reuters Plastics & Pollution
The latest expedition in National Geographic's Pristine Seas initiative has set sail in quest to map and protect the world's oceans.
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United Nations News Plastics & Pollution
“Every year, over 400 million tons of plastic is produced worldwide – one third of which is used just once”, said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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Boyan Slat, The New York Times Plastics & Pollution
The world is finally getting serious about plastic pollution. Next week, delegates from U.N. member states will gather in Paris to debate the shape of what some hope will become the plastic-pollution equivalent of the Paris climate agreement.
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Jamie Hailstone, Forbes Plastics & Pollution
More than 60 leading plastic waste innovators have joined forces to form a new alliance, as preparations begin for the next round of negotiations for a UN-led treaty to tackle the issue.
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James Hailstone, Forbes Plastics & Pollution
Seaweed has the potential to solve many of the world’s environmental challenges, according to one leading expert.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Plastics & Pollution
The health of coral reefs, our most biodiverse ocean ecosystem, is fundamentally interconnected with human health. We need urgent global action to tackle the pollution crisis to protect both, explain Stacy Jupiter, Bodhi Patil and Christopher Corbin.
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Jeff Kart, Forbes Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
Making bioplastics from seaweed is becoming fashionable. And that’s not a dig.
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Oliver Morrison, Food Navigator Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
EIT Food, the world’s largest food innovation community, has announced the results of its Marketed Innovation Prize, designed to reward innovative food start-ups that have successfully brought products or services to market.
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Tom Ford, plasticprize.org Plastics & Pollution
In 2020, Tom Ford partnered with Lonely Whale to launch the TOM FORD Plastic Innovation Prize, the only global competition focused on creating scalable and biologically degradable alternatives to traditional thin-film plastic polybags.
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Laura Paddison, CNN Plastics & Pollution
The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study.
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Tim De Chant, TechCrunch Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports
For an ecosystem that covers a majority of the planet, the oceans have basically been ignored by startups and investors alike.
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Economic Impact Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
Economist Impact’s Martin Koehring highlights why stronger collaboration will be required to accelerate progress in 2023.
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